ITP Spring Show 2012Just another itp.nyu.edu site2012-05-14T19:13:59Zhttp://itp.nyu.edu/shows/spring2012/feed/atom/WordPress-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZThe incredible success of Kony2012 got us thinking… why not cut out the middleman in the quest for global security? KickStriker allows you to fund the security and military projects that suit your preferences.
]]>31-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZPlinko Poetry is a new interface for electronic poetic expression. Drawing source text from current @nytimes and @FoxNews tweets, players can absurdly re-contextualize news headlines that are often overloaded with meaning. With roots in The Price Is Right and experimental blackout poetry- every player can be both a winner and a poet!

The interface of Plinko Poetry uses Processing to display alternate scrolling lines of current tweets from the New York Times and Fox News. When a user drops a chip, it randomly hits pegs on the way down. The word under each peg that is hit is highlighted, with the untouched pegs automatically darkened. Plinko Poetry uses openFrameworks camera color tracking to determine which pegs have been encountered. When the chip comes to a stop, the user is left with a trail of blackout poetry which is then live tweeted to @PlinkoPoetry.

Ultimately users will create a new corpus of ever changing poetic text based on the zeitgeist of current headlines.

]]>8-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZAs part of my thesis, I built a portable practice gamelan instrument embedded in my laptop sleeve so I could rehearse my music anywhere that I carry my laptop. The Gamelan Sampul, which means \’envelope gamelan\’, features touch-sensitive pads that trigger noises that one would usually hear from real Javanese gamelan instruments. It also acts as a recording device, allowing users to keep an archive of their own and other players\’ musical style. I will also present a set of new sensors currently in development that give haptic and visual feedback as well as more accurate sensing of when it is hit.
]]>7-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZProject Warm Shell proposes innovative solutions that work together to make homes responsive to their users in order to create intuitive and effective automated environments.
]]>3-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZDigital Conducting focuses on the mechanics of the human body specifically pertaining to the hand and arm motions used by a conductor. Using the kinect camera and the programming environment MaxMSP/Jitter, a users movements and gestures are closely tracked providing accurate beat tracking, tempo tracking and conducting cues which are then used to create and trigger audio and visual elements. The installation allows users the opportunity to experience the correlation between the motion of a conductor and the sound being produced by these movements.
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The Method of Loci is an ancient Roman memory technique in which one uses his or her imagination to place images along a familiar path as a way to remember...]]>A mobile application that brings an ancient memory technique to our 21st century location aware technologies.

The Method of Loci is an ancient Roman memory technique in which one uses his or her imagination to place images along a familiar path as a way to remember a sequence of things or ideas. Loci re-imagines this technique within the framework made possible by location aware technologies, to create a learning platform for the urban experience.

Have something you wish to remember? Enter it into the application along a path on a map, and begin the walk. As you reach your locations, what you want to remember, along with dynamically generated mnemonic devices, images, audio, and video, will appear.

]]>4-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZSecondhand Stories is an interactive installation designed for the context of a flea market or secondhand store. Several curious objects sit on top of the table. When a user picks one up, an outline of the object in light remains on the table, and the name of the previous owner of the object is displayed. The user hears the previous owner of the object tell a story about that object. The light flickers, mimicking the voice of the story teller. When the object is placed back on the table, the audio stops.
]]>4-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZThe resource use by many appliances is in large part determined by user choices. Designing the interface to encourage users to make choices which reduce energy and resource use, such as using cold water to wash clothing, can substantially reduce the overall environmental impact of the product-service system.
]]>0-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZWhile thinking about the way we digest information I was interested in creating an interactive work on canvas. By printing qr codes on canvas the work requires the viewer to use their mobile phone to access the artwork\’s full intent. Each qr code leads the viewer to a different appropriation or online appearance of George Seurat\’s iconic pointillist painting \” Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte\”.
]]>9-0001-11-30T00:00:00Z-0001-11-30T00:00:00ZRecent technological developments have begun to seriously reshape the landscape of possibilities for realtime video performance. \”Performance Machine(s)\” functions as a study of contemporary AV performance workflows; it is a malleable video performance system, but it is also a survey of some of today\’s most uniquely exciting realtime video processing tools and strategies.
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